Estates Engine Company #3. New Hyde Park, NY
Estates Engine is a volunteer fire company located in western Nassau county on the border of Queens (NYC). Estates Engine currently operates a 2010 Spartan/Crimson 1750 gpm pumper (173). Estates responds to 300-350 fire calls annually.
The Estates Engine Company was organized by a group of concerned new homeowners in the “Lakeville Estates” development in North New Hyde Park. The organizing members felt that the community of newly built homes needed a fire company that was closer to the neighborhood and appealed to the New Hyde Park Fire District to allow them to form a new fire company. In December 1941, the Estates Hose Company was officially chartered just as the United States was entering World War II.
The plot of land on which the firehouse would eventually be built is said to have been previously used as a storage yard by Klein and Teicholz builders, the primary developers of the Lakeville Estates homes. Klein and Teicholz were responsible for the construction of several thousand homes in the area on lands that were previously potato farms. Lore has it that the parcel of land at Lakeville Road and Manly Place was donated by Klein and Teicholz for the specific purpose of building a firehouse there.
The first firehouse building was also donated to the new Company and was trucked to the site. It was a small wood-frame garage that was heated with a coal stove. Chaplain Leon Korrell once reminisced that the charter members would “chip-in” to purchase a bag of coal to heat the firehouse during meetings and drills. Eventually, the first garage was moved to the gas station located next door and the current building was constructed and was in use by 1943.
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